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The opportunity to turn the decision-making process over to a group with diverse skills and abilities is one of the arguments for using work groups (and teams) in organizational settings.

Team – based Structures

Work groups share resources and coordinate efforts to help members

better perform their individual duties and responsibilities. The performance of the group can be evaluated by adding up the contributions of the individual group members.

Work teams require not only coordination but also collaboration, the pooling of knowledge, skills, abilities, and resources in a collective effort to attain a common goal. A work team creates synergy, causing the performance of the team as a whole to be greater than the sum of team members’ individual contributions.